"I''ll be very busy once I''m back home. If you''re going to tell me, you should do it tonight. I might not have timeter," Eleanor added suddenly.


    Right. He was looking at a major figure in the medical world. Her time was going to be incredibly valuable from now on.


    He nodded. "Alright. We can talk back in your room."


    Eleanor''s eyes flickered. "Let''s take a walk on the beach first."


    Eleanor smiled, too, looking out the window at the sea. "You''re the one who thinks that. I certainly don''t."


    After dinner, it was only around seven-thirty. The private beach was even more quiet and serene. They walked along the long shoreline.


    "Where do you want to start?" Eleanor turned to look at him. Since he was going to talk, she would listen properly.


    "Let''s start from when I first met you,"n began slowly. "Did you know? That summer, because of our meetings in the hospital library, my studies were aplete mess."


    Eleanor couldn''t help but feel a little flustered. That summer, she hadn''t absorbed a single thing from the books her father had assigned her either. Her face grew warm. "If you weren''t reading, what were you looking at?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.


    "At you, and the pleasant time I spent just sitting there with you."


    "But we never said a word to each other," Eleanor recalled.


    "I wanted to, but I was afraid of scaring you off,"n admitted.


    Eleanor had wanted to speak too, butn''s status as the scion of a wealthy family had made her extremely shy and timid.


    Eleanor''s face grew even warmer. In the video her father had given him, the one from when he was in aa, she had told him everything.


    She hadn''t known her father would do that, so she had foolishly poured out all her thoughts to him in a one-sided conversation.


    Eleanor turned her face away. "Is it that funny?"


    "I didn''t have to think about family responsibilities, I could briefly forget about my parents'' illnesses, I didn''t have to calcte profits and losses. I could just sit there quietly, watching you, and I found it interesting."


    Back then, Eleanor was like a summer stream, flowing gently into his heart, nourishing his young and weary soul.


    Eleanor''s heart stirred. She had been young thenpletely unaware of the pressuren carried on his shoulders. All she knew was that he was always impably dressed and exuded an air of superiority that made him feel impossibly out of reach.


    over


    Smith who was an expert in hematology at a hospital in


    Drexford. He told me they couldn''t find a stem cell match for my


    mother. Later, after searching all the blood banks in Drexford, he finally found Vanessa. She was the onlypatible donor who could save my mother."


    "I signed a contract with her. I sponsored her education and supported her financially. I thought that was all she wanted. However..."n seemed reluctant to recall that period.


    It wasn''t surprising that Vanessa had fallen madly in love with him.


    Eleanor knew very well how attractiven must have been to an eighteen-year-old


    girl.


    He was young, handsome, wealthy, and possessed a mature charm beyond his years, forged by the adversity he faced.


    For someone in Vanessa''s situation,n''s appearance fulfilled all her romantic fantasies.


    "She began to be dissatisfied with a purely financial arrangement,"n''s voice sounded cold in the sea breeze. "She tried to insert herself into my life. Because she was my mother''s savior, I tolerated it as much as I could. She would fréquently visit my mother and sister, quickly earning my mother''s trust and affection. I warned her in private, but I couldn''t stop her from using various excuses and methods to get close."